My Grand Adventure

What am I? It's a question that sits in my mind, like a a ghost in the shadows, teasing me to look straight at it and acknowledge that...

Day 3 in The Winds found us camped among the granite giants on the west side of the Cirque of the Towers. The plan for the day was to...

The mud squishes underneath our boots. Snow capped granite mountains rise above the trees in the distance. Streams and creeks rush past,...

Twenty minutes. That's how long I stood on top of The Grand Teton, a summit I'd been thinking and dreaming (ok, I admit - obsessing)...

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I woke up at 2am in a tent at 11,000 feet. There had been a storm during the night. Thunder boomed through the mountains and lightning...

For six months I've been thinking about this day. I've been planning and training and generally obsessing over it. And now it's here....

13 days. In 13 days I'll be standing at the base of the Grand Teton, introducing myself to the other climbers in the group, and trying to...

I did what I always seem to do - I freaked out, did so much research I got overwhelmed, freaked out some more, asked a bunch of people a...

Tuscarora quartzite spires jutting out of the mountain top, a trail of rocky cliffs overlooking Catawba valley, snakes, poison ivy, and...